DORRINGTON, Amy
| Service Number: | Staff Nurse |
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| Enlisted: | 12 August 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Staff Nurse |
| Last Unit: | 3rd Australian General Hospital - WW1 |
| Born: | Marrabel, South Australia, 16 March 1880 |
| Home Town: | Marrabel, Clare and Gilbert Valleys, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Nurse |
| Died: | Car Accident, Yankalilla, South Australia, 21 December 1934, aged 54 years |
| Cemetery: |
Marrabel Belvidere St. Philip Anglican Church Cemetery, South Australia No headstone |
| Memorials: | Marrabel District Honour Roll, Riverton Holy Trinity Anglican Church Honour Roll WW1, Yankalilla Christ Church DORRINGTON Memorial Window, Yankalilla War Memorial Wall |
World War 1 Service
| 12 Aug 1915: | Enlisted Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Staff Nurse, Staff Nurse, Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1) | |
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| 24 Aug 1915: | Involvement Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '23' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: RMS Morea embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: '' | |
| 24 Aug 1915: | Embarked Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1), Staff Nurse, Staff Nurse, 3rd Australian General Hospital - WW1, RMS Morea, Melbourne |
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Daughter of James DORRINGTON & Julia Louisa Fredericka nee MUGGE of Marrabel, SA
Trained at Burra Hospital and has had charge of the Women's Hospital, Melbourne for 3 1/2 eyars prior to embarkation.
Sister Dorrington was accidentally killed at Yankallila when the car in which she was travelling crashed 300 feet over a cliff.
A district nursing sister since her return, Miss Dorrington was hastening to attend a member of a salvage crew who had been bitten by a snake, when the car in which she travelled overturned, both the nurse and driver being killed instantly. "It was the way in which she would have wished it—to meet death in uniform and on duty," said a close friend of hers yesterday.
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